“Fundamentalist religion is the most pervasive vision of central planning, though many fundamentalists may oppose human central planning as a usurpation or “playing God.” This is consistent with the fundamentalist vision of an unconstrained God and a highly constrained man.” — Thomas Sowell …

“Art is either plagiarism or revolution.” — Paul Gauguin …

“When you are looking your children in the eye in the future, or when you are at the end of your life, you want to look back on your life and know that at a very important moment, when I had the opportunity to make the right decisions, I did so, even knowing there were negative consequences.” — Lt. Ehren Watada …

“My hope is that the memory of death and disgrace will be so intense that people of the
united states will be able to listen to a message that the rest of the world sobered by wars without end, can also understand:that war itself is te enemy of the human race” — Howard Zinn
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“All Americans — not only those of faith — who care about our open society must learn to speak about this movement with a new vocabulary, to give up passivity, to challenge aggressively this movement’s deluded appropriation of Christianity and to do everything possible to defend tolerance.” — Chris Hedges …

“Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to war.” — Albert Einstein remarks in response to the horrors of World War I. …

“.. if we believe in the fundamental open and participatory nature of democracy – that immigrants deserve the opportunity to participate in our work force, socity, and culture – then we must fight for them with the same intensity and passion with which we fight for democracy itself.” — Deepa Fernandes …

“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” — Martin Luther King Jr. …

“It seems to me important for a country, for a nation to certainly know about its glorious achievements but also to know where its ideals failed, in order to keep that from happening again.” — George Takei
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“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower
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